Luna Latch

Luna Latch puts the moon in your menu bar. The icon shows today's phase, and one click opens a calendar with the moon drawn on every day of the month, in silver foil on a paper-white card. One glance tells you how far off the next full moon is.

MONTH
- Every day's moon on its date, in a light or dark finish
- Today highlighted, full and new moons marked
- Hover or click a day for its phase, illumination and moon age
- Countdown to the next full moon and new moon

TODAY
- Phase name, illumination and moon age
- Moonrise and moonset for your location
- Distance from Earth, with a Supermoon or Micromoon tag on full moon days
- Copy today's moon to the clipboard with ⌘C

YEAR
- All twelve months of moons on one screen
- Click any day to open its month

MENU BAR
- The icon is drawn for the real phase and stays up to date
- Optional text beside it: days to the next full moon, or illumination
- Fits light and dark menu bars
- Open Luna Latch from any app with your own keyboard shortcut

NOTIFICATIONS (off until you turn them on)
- The evening before a full moon or new moon
- Supermoons, blue moons and lunar eclipses

EXPORT
- Save a month as a printable PDF, in A4 or Letter to suit your region
- Save a month as a wallpaper sized to your display

SETTINGS
- Pick your location from over 34,000 cities, or enter coordinates. No Location Services needed.
- Southern hemisphere: the moon turns to match your sky
- Week starts on Sunday or Monday
- Light, dark or system theme
- Launch at login

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Everything is calculated on your Mac, using the methods in Jean Meeus's Astronomical Algorithms. Luna Latch never goes online: no account, no ads, no tracking and no data collected.

Luna Latch lives in the menu bar and has no Dock icon.